The Columbian Exchange and Its Consequences Effects of the First Contact Effects of the First Contact
The Columbian Exchange and Its Consequences
Effects of the First Contact
Effects of the First Contact
Resolved: Columbus Day should remain a national holiday in the US
Meanwhile, back in Europe… All Heaven is Breaking Loose!
Protestant Reformation 1492 -- W. Europe = Catholic 1517 -- Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
attacked indulgences saved by faith alone “priesthood of all believers” Result conflict & civil war
Calvinism Predestination strict morality hard work
Protestantism in England Henry VIII = “defender of the faith” ....BUT wife #1 (Catherine of Aragon) can’t give him male heir Anne Boleyn Elizabeth I Henry forms Anglican Church (Protestant)
English attempts at Empire Began under Queen Elizabeth I Raleigh’s “Lost Colony”
100 colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to Roanoke Island Virginia Dare = 1st English child born in New World Colony mysteriously disappeared